Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Death Row murderer suffered 'three hours of pain' in 'longest execution in US history'
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: Teen hitman from 'Mexico's most dangerous cartel' caught carrying dismembered body parts And an autopsy later revealed several puncture wounds and slices as James "struggled and had to be sedated".Officials claimed the hold-up was caused after the executioners experienced trouble establishing the intravenous lines carrying the lethal drugs into the body of James Jr.
who killed his former girlfriend nearly 30 years ago.Human rights organisation Reprieve US later claimed that an autopsy and sources from a recent report from the Atlantic had shown the lethal injection procedure had begun long before media witnesses were admitted at around 9.00pm.Now suspicions have arisen that the execution may have been so badly botched that his death could have been the longest in US history.The autopsy also revealed horrifying puncture wounds, it was reported, as James 'struggled and had to be sedated' during the botched exhibition.Director of Reprieve US, Maya Foa said: "Subjecting a prisoner to three hours of pain and suffering is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment."States cannot continue to pretend that the abhorrent practice of lethal injection is in any way humane."This is the latest example of the extreme lengths states will go to hide the brutal reality of lethal injection because they know the public would oppose it if they found out what was really going on."The Daily Star has contacted Alabama state prison officials for comment.James was convicted of murder and sentenced to death after he shot Faith Hall, a former girlfriend nearly 30 years ago.He gunned down his victim after breaking into her friend's home in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1994, and had his final appeal request denied on Wednesday evening.
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